High Speed Pursuits Endanger Your House
Published: February 26th, 2012
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Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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Did that car have its turn signal on?
The civilian is clearly pulling to the left to make a turn well before the collision happened, and appeared to have his/her blinker on. He/she likely expected the cop to pass on the right, as can normally be expected with a left turn.
Cop's fault. Big time. He looks to be doing nearly triple digit speeds on a narrow dark two-lane residential road. I'll bet any of you know-it-alls blaming the civilian would never be able to judge just how fast that cop was coming up from behind you and likely would have been just as "oblivious". One moment no one is behind you. Five seconds later you are plowed into at freeway speed. You people overestimate yourselves. What if that was your wife returning home with your 6-month old in the backseat? You gonna call her a "dumbass" and and "idiot" then? Or would you wake up and realize how dangerous this was to every bystander in the way?
What if it was your wife in your living room? I sounds like the siren was turned off when the police car turned right. Then a quick beep when it was too late. You can't expect the average drive to be able to react well in this situation.